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Posted By: Hal Lewis

As a "modern day" example of this phenomenon...

does anyone remember the Billy Ripken "f##kface" error card??

It was discovered very early in the printing process by Fleer... and a "corrected" version was printed from that time forward...

but BOTH of them were printed BEFORE the cards were DISTRIBUTED to the public.

I know this for a fact because I remember driving all over creation buying boxes of Fleer cards the VERY FIRST DAY they were distrubuted to the wholesalers...

and SOME of the Billy Ripken cards in those boxes were the earlier-printed "error" cards...

while OTHER wax packages in the SAME CASE contained "corrected" Billy Ripken cards.

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This was 1989 ... not 1889 ...

so it just goes to show that these card manufacturers always print up ALL the cards BEFORE they start shipping them out.